Tag Archives: OpenSolaris

Huge tracts of media

December 16, 2011 – 4:42 pm

I don’t think much of it anymore, but many people still keep their media (audio and video) on shiny pieces of plastic which they store in pieces of furniture near their entertainment areas.  Dutifully extracting them from their cases each time they want to listen to or watch them.  I was a very early adopter [...]

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Should I have named it Barad-dûr? Or, my new server.

May 17, 2010 – 10:59 am

When we last left our intrepid hero (geek), had convinced myself that the new Western Digital drives with the 4kb block sizes operated perfectly fine under OpenSolaris, but that the frankenstein of my old server needed to be replaced. I figured if I was going to do this, I was going to do it right. [...]

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4kb blocksize vs. OpenSolaris vs. Me

April 11, 2010 – 8:38 pm

A week or so ago, in my weekly status email from my OpenSolaris NAS, I got an unfortunate notice. status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected. The last sentence is the welcome news that one gets from using cool things like [...]

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